It was the place he came to feel wild, and I was ready to trespass into the world of men.
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Clocking Out
Can we imagine an economy built for free time?
You’re Just Too Good to Be True
My on-again, off-again love affair with Engelbert Humperdinck.
You’re Just Too Good to Be True
My on-again, off-again love affair with Engelbert Humperdinck.
The Unnecessary Beauty of Ice Hockey
Kent Russell loves hockey. A lot. I don’t, but Russell’s writing about the game is utterly engrossing
“Modern Life Is Not Violent Enough,” Said Nobody — But They Thought It
This excerpt from Chuck Klosterman’s book “But What If We’re Wrong?” is nominally about football, and violence, but is also a prescient analysis of U.S. politics.
Why ESPN Still Can’t Quit Cable
Bloomberg Businessweek‘s latest cover story highlights the tricky economics of licensing live sports.
Working Through the Apocalypse: An Interview with Ling Ma
In Ling Ma’s “Severance” — a novel she began to write after getting laid off, while living partly on severance pay — the characters keep going to work, even though they know it’s the end of the world.
Phil Ivey’s Semi-Bluff
During poker’s boom in the early-aughts, Phil Ivey was the sport’s first genuine superstar, an intimidating manipulator with an utterly brilliant mind who helped catapult poker (and his own bank account) to dizzying heights. “I like it when I lose so much money I can barely breathe,” he once told a table during the filming […]
